Law enforcement officials are on the lookout for a driver who, police say, left a vehicle behind and fled the scene after striking a police cruiser and crashing into a tree in Philly’s Germantown community overnight. <\/p>\n
According to police, officers found a vehicle abandoned after a driver crashed into a tree along the 6300 block of Ardleigh Street in Germantown at about 12:30 a.m. on Friday. <\/p>\n
In investigating this crash, police said, investigators determined the vehicle was likely the same one believed to have been involved in a crash earlier in the evening with a police vehicle that happened near the intersection of Chelten Avenue and McMahon Street in East Germantown.<\/p>\n
Though, officials did not immediately provide further details on that earlier crash and they did not say if anyone was injured in that incident. <\/p>\n
The driver of the vehicle that was found abandoned, police said, fled the scene on foot after crashing into a tree on Ardleigh Street. <\/p>\n
However, officials said the vehicle was not likely stolen and investigators believe they know who was behind the wheel at the time of both of these crashes.<\/p>\n
An investigation is underway as police were still working to locate the driver on Friday morning. <\/p>\n
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated as new information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officials are on the lookout for a driver who, police say, left a vehicle behind and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14780,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-251007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-germantown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}